New Year’s Resolution for Your Church
Posted by Jeff Jackson at 5:10 pm
Everyone likes a good new year’s resolution but have your ever made one for you church? This is a great way to recast vision especially if you started to experience vision slippage at the end of 2009 (watch for a post soon about vision slippage). The first objection to this resolution is that most resolution don’t stick or people don’t stick to the resolutions. How can we make our church’s new year’s resolution stick in the hearts and minds of our people.
- Make your resolution Reasonable - Don’t expect your members to automatically start bringing all their friends to church. Lets start with a small obtainable resolution something that can be measured and celebrated.
- Make your resolution Realistic - Lets not program God out of the equation but lets keep the resolution realistic. Much like the first point we need to cast an expectation that your people can see. Don’t give them a 30 thousand foot view but rather give them practical, daily resolutions. A good way to accomplish this is to remove any will power that your people might need to exert in order to keep the Church’s resolution.
- Make your resolution Rewarding - As stated before always make sure your resolution is measurable so you can reward your people when you stick to the resolution. For example and I’m not against numbers but maybe you should have a goal of baptizing more people this year rather than saying we want to baptize 100 people this year.
Make 2010 be the best year the Kingdom of God has ever seen!
